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Fast Forward Truck ramming at Australian synagogue prompts hate crime charges as antisemitism commission opens
'At a time of catastrophic antisemitism, as we saw at Bondi, this inevitably deepens fear and insecurity,' said Levi Wolff
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Fast Forward Arrests and clashes with police as Australians protest Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Sydney visit
Herzog visited the site of the Bondi massacre on Monday
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Fast Forward Protests roil Australia ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit
Herzog was invited to visit Australia by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the wake of the Bondi massacre
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Fast Forward Mourner’s Kaddish for Bondi Beach victims recited in Australian parliament as tougher hate crime laws pass
“You don’t have to be Jewish to feel this in your chest,” said Jewish parliamentarian Mark Dreyfus
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Fast Forward Australian writers’ festival collapses — and apologizes — after boycott over disinvited Palestinian activist
'I refuse and reject the Board’s apology,' said Randa Abdel-Fattah about the Adelaide Writers’ Festival
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Fast Forward Following pressure from Jewish leaders, Australian PM Anthony Albanese announces inquiry into Bondi attack
The announcement comes as Ahmed al-Ahmed, the Muslim man who was shot while trying to thwart the attack, was honored by Chabad in New York
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Fast Forward Just before Hanukkah attack, Jewish mayor of Bondi Beach region had been praised for fighting antisemitism
Because he was only one of very few leaders in Australia that stood against antisemitism, this happened. If there were more, this would never have happened,' one ally said
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Fast Forward Bondi gunmen condemned ‘Zionist’ actions prior to attack and threw bombs that failed to detonate, police say
The surviving attacker faces 15 counts of murder
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